UFC President Dana White Explains Why He Referred to the WWE as "Fake"

Dana White was just trolling you, guys.

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Early last month, just hours before Ronda Rouseyknocked Bethe Correia out in 34 seconds, UFC president Dana White made a lot of people on Twitter mad when he referred to the WWE as "fake." White was responding to a series of Twitter trolls on the social media site when he decided to piss off pro wrestling fans. But as it turns out, White doesn't hate the WWE or anything. During a recent interview with the Chad Dukes Wrestling Show, he admitted that he was simply trolling a troll back when he took a shot at Vince McMahon's company.

"Listen, try to do anything today without pissing people off," he said. "Try it. I mean, anything you say, people get mad. You just gotta not care, and I don't care. Anything you say on Twitter or Instagram or anywhere these days, every week I have a different group mad at me. So you know, it's always something, but it's still the world we live in today. My Twitter and social media has been exactly the same since the day I got on it, and one of the things, you said it best, the more successful you become, the bigger something gets, the harder it is to be yourself and to really speak honestly because somebody ends up getting mad. You literally just have to get to the point where you just don't care who gets mad, and that's how I am."

White went on to say that he's on good terms with many WWE wrestlers and that he respects what they do.

"I've had my battles with Vince [McMahon] behind the scenes with some stuff that we've worked on, but I respect all the guys in the WWE in the wrestling profession," he said. "We have so many guys that are fans of the UFC and, when they come to the events, we take very good care of them. We treat them with respect. I have yet to meet a bad guy from the wrestling world. Everybody is really classy, and everybody's really cool. My wrestling thing was just a response to an idiot on social media that was talking smack, so I kind of gave him a zinger back and the whole wrestling world went crazy on me. But it is what it is. To be honest with you, I really don't care."

So there you have it. You still mad, wrestling fans?

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